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The final recordings of Love,Calvin from 2003 are now online…

http://www.lovecalvin.com/oblivion.html

Other People is the 2009 album by Amsterdam artist monopoli, created in February in conjunction with rpmchallenge.com activities. While you might anticipate that an album created in one month might sound a bit rushed or incomplete,  you would be very wrong in this case. monopoli’s style takes nods from bands like Squeeze, XTC, Crowded House, etc. The arrangements are complex and full of progressive sonic candy and kitchen sink timbres. Catchy vocal hooks and beautiful harmonies too. There are several instrumentals mixed in that stretch out melodically, exploring an impressive breadth of territory. This is one great album!

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German artist Ben OThman’s music is tagged as lounge oriental chill eastern middle ambient chillout tunisia downtempo electronic. Lounge Café’s 10 tracks are a masterfully executed blend of these styles to envelope your private atmosphere.

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La Olla Express, from Spain, combines a frantic collection of styles — ska, punk, reggae, pop, jam, latin, and fusion — and makes a party with a social agenda. This is powerful stuff, sizzling emotion and highly recommended.

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Near as I can tell in babelfish Italian-to-English, Dadan Italian artist Dadan describes this album as taking simple music structures as building blocks to form more complicated pieces. And that describes these pieces well. The music is synth pop and Dadan takes a simple chord pattern and proceeds to build a variety of timbres and other simple arpeggio patterns around it. The result is light and breezy, like the title. It doesn’t venture away from the structure which proves a little unnerving, yet still interesting. There are eight pieces in all with my favorite piece being the final “dream begin (remix).”

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/59797?refuid=777112

This 2009 album by Sister Savage displays a lot of faces, or maybe a lot of masques as well. The “bored housewife” has a playful approach but is also not afraid to bare deeper feelings, or at least go on searching for them. The music here ranges from closet acoustic songwriter songs to avant classical and Savage is backed by several different artists who appear regularly on Internet musician sites like alonetone.com in addition to her one-woman tracks, infusing a wild diversity to Savage’s new beat poetry milieu. I loved it! –Bryan Baker, homemademusic.com

http://alonetone.com/sistersavage/playlists/mischief-bound

mp3: Watch Out For the Sunshine
mp3: Morning Reprieve
mp3: Sheltering Song (with Gumbo Stu)

Christopher Mongillo is a 23-year-old multi-instrumentalist from Hartford, CT. His bio lists his musical influences as The Postal Service, Depeche Mode and vocal influences as Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Placebo’s Brian Molko and Brandon Flowers of The Killers. City Skyscape’s debut will find fans of Depeche Mode warming to Mongillo’s outstanding, soaring vocals and harmonies played against his infections analog synth melodies. This is a wonderful throwback, indeed. –Bryan Baker

http://myspace.com/thecityskyscape
http://www.last.fm/music/The+City+Skyscape
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-City-Skyscape/18055594948

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-city-skyscape/id313507262

mp3:  The City Skyscape – The Notorious Kelly Monroe

 

 

 Ready the Destroyer is a Chicago-based 3-piece in the vein of Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr, The Afghan Whigs, Fugazi while turning an ear toward Yellow Card, Green Day, etc. Neill Miller (vocal/guitar), Aaron Cleall (bass), and Nicolas Lama (drums) balance the nacent grit of furious rock with a direct melodic approach and build it to the gutpunch in these songs. This is definitely a band to watch out for. They’ve been honing their sound with solid local and regional shows with the likes of The U.S. Bombs, Far From Finished, Sybris, Venom Lords and Milk at Midnight. Their new CD, Through This Night, was released October 2, 2008 to loyal fans at Reggie’s Rock Club and is now available at cdbaby and elsewhere everywhere. Reviewed by: Bryan Baker  

Zeusfuse fuses elements of progrock, post-grunge, and gothic. Vocalist Pete Gargano’s lyrics are poetic explorations that sidestep the common ground focus and look forward as often as they grimace. The band is solid. Guitarist Ken Brown opts for acoustic foundations along with heavier riff-laden fare; and Zeusfuse can make their music run a gamut of emotions. Reviewed by: Bryan Baker.

Visit the zeusfuse IndieOneStop.com artist page.

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Victory Music is a non-profit organization founded in 1969 to support local acoustic, jazz, blues and folk music. The purpose of Victory Music is to support acoustic music in the Northwest by fostering a community that nurtures musical growth, creativity, and the appreciation of acoustic music. They are publishers of the wonderful Victory Review, along with organizing open mics, and the web site has musician referral and other helpful offerings. Phone: 253-428-0832. Fax: 253-428-8056. Postal Address: Victory Music, PO Box 2254, Tacoma, WA 98401.

E-mail: Victory@nwlink.com

http://www.victorymusic.org .

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